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Zombies in New York? Really? Ok, this is an older novel and very well written. I always have trouble putting down a Pendergast novel, and this was no exception. Two fun characters from previous books are attacked multiple witnesses report the attacker had died weeks before. How can a dead man return to attack people and why these particular two? Pendergast the reason I rated this one a tad lower than normal was because I hated to see my favorite journalist get smoked! Mass Market Paperback I rarely do book reviews because I don't think I'm very good at them but I love Preston & Child books. Pendergast is a great character and I love the entire series. A good book for me is when I can't put it down, find myself reading it when I should be doing something else, and sad when I hit the last page. Worthy of a review even though I can't succinctly delve into the character development or story line to do it justice. So just let me say that the book delivers everything I adore about losing myself in a book! 978-1455584420 Cemetery Dance hooked me immediately by killing off of one of the main characters in the series in the very first chapter! I didn't see it coming and I applaud the authors for trying to shake their cast up a little. It's another fascinating tale from Preston and Child, with Pendergast back in New York, mixing it up with a strange cult that deals in voodoo style ceremonies.

A great book yes, but also a somewhat familiar one. I can appreciate nine books into a series fresh ideas are not as easy to come by as they once were, but several scenes from Cemetery Dance are rehashes of events that have already happened in the series. Nora Kelly chased through the museum by a homicidal killer already seen that in Cabinet of Curiosities. A protest march, starting out seemingly small, but growing out of control with police unable to stop the violence already seen that in Reliquary. Police leadership acting like buffoons, leaving the ever reliable Laura Hayward to step in because she's seemingly always right and her commanding officers (always male) are completely inept already seen that in pretty much every book Hayward has been in (that one in particular has far outworn it's welcome). Still a great book, but I'm hoping for something a little different in the next one. 978-1455584420 Smithback, that controversial reporter and an important character in previous books, is brutally murdered and his wife, Nora Kelly, attacked by a man who was supposedly dead two weeks ago. Well, that's how this intense thriller starts. I soon learned about a secretive community of decrepit buildings called the Ville, on the northernmost tip of Manhattan, which houses a cult which does animal sacrifices, and may have a connection to Smithback's (and later) killings. Pendergast is immediately on the scene, much to the surprise of NYPD and Lt. D'Agosta. The book is a real thrill ride. Especially the visits to the Ville. A major twist ensues in the book which completely threw me off. A must read for fans of this series! 592 pages I can't say I disliked the book but so far my least favorite of the series. Most times I read on planes and evenings at the hotel bar while on business travel I knock one of these out in a week or so. This one? Litterally two months. And usually while on my weekly 3 hours flight to Washington and back for weekends I would read the whole way. I put this book down many, many times to watch a movie instead. The characters were just as entertaining as before so I can only conclude it was the story itself. I simply didn't enjoy it. Sorry P&C bisexual-romance

Pendergast, the world's most mysterious FBI Special Agent, investigates a murderous cult in New York City that no one has ever survived.

William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier.
While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private and decidedly unorthodox quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived. Cemetery Dance (Agent Pendergast Series, 9)

Pendergast is back in another chilling tale from the minds of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It is always a gamble to kill off a lead character from a series at the beginning of a novel. If you didn't know that before you read this review, I bet that got your attention.

Pendergast is back with D'Agosta but this time the crime that they are investigating is very different. The murder that they are investigating is that of Bill Smithback. Not to worry the perpetrator finger prints was all over Bill Smithback's apartment and a security video has the killers face coming in and out of the complex. However, the finger prints and the face belong to an individual who has been dead for weeks. As the investigation gets and involved the reader begins to get the idea that the dead or rather the undead could still be walking around.

Meanwhile, Nora Kelly, who barely escaped the assault that killed Smithback, is trying to put her life back together but as she attempts to help Pendergast with the investigation she realizes that her life could still be in danger.

Another excellent story in the Pendergast series! These novels are hard to put down. The gripping story, and the excellent characters rates this novel right up there with their best.

Grade: A malik-gale99.blogspot.com Another enjoyable Pendergast read.
This time, we're back in New York for a romp involving zombies and a sacrificial cult. If you've been reading the series since the beginning and become happily familiar with Pendergast's friends and acquaintances then you're in for a big shock during the first chapter. English Cemetery Dance is a page turner of a book. Based in Manhattan, there are a lot of unusual and strange events going on. FBI agent Pendergast and NYPD detective D'Agosta have their hands full with zombiis and cultists roaming the night. The unbelievable has New York City on edge. This novel has the making of a good movie. The book has one drawback and that is the development of women characters. Why do they have to use the old cliché of having a woman pass out when she confronts the unexpected. This is a 1950s movie plot. The next upcoming book uses the same old technique. Enough already! 978-1455584420 First time I have felt myself thinking, shall l continue with these books, my efforts were not rewarded a all this time.
500 pages to tell this story, was far to long.
It just wasn't polished, lots of small timing mistakes that jarred, or you just end up skipping & scanning through pages of needless words. A whole character was introduced and there was no need. A task was also taken on with no need, both points could, and should have been dealt with differently.
I will never get those few hours back now.

As for the ending can l get £2.50 back, l think that is fair. 978-1455584420 I haven't read many of this series and not in any kind of order so I may have missed some of the back story but not enough to prevent me enjoying Cemetery Dance. It is a romp round voodoo, zombies and murder which should not, I think, be taken too seriously. Looking back it's all extremely implausible yes, the plot, but also how it all came together but it was great fun and an exciting journey to the denouement. I really liked this book as great escapist literature and would recommend it to any reader looking for some brightness on a dull day. 592 pages